Section: US & Canada
Huge Trove of Leaked Russian Documents Is Published by Transparency Advocates
Files and messages on Russia’s war in Ukraine, the business dealings of oligarchs and other issues were published online by a group called Distributed Denial of Secrets. …read more Source: The New York...
This Week: The Long-Awaited Roger Stone Indictment Arrives
Roger Stone was arrested and indicted Friday morning as federal agents stormed his homes in Florida and New York. In an indictment, special counsel Robert Mueller laid out communication between Stone and the Trump campaign during the summer and fall of 2016. Stone suggested repeatedly during that time that he was in touch with Wikileaks, and,...
A Brief History of Roger Stone
Roger Stone, the famed political consultant, seems to have played a role in every major conservative moment in the last half-century. And if there’s one quality that’s defined his long career in politics, it’s that he’s prone to scandal of his own making.Enter Robert Mueller. On Friday morning, the special counsel indicted...
Into the dark
This is a link post. Read the full story here. We were foreigners and we weren’t going somewhere foreigners often go, so when I saw the blond man across the Bangkok airport shuttle bus on our way to the remote mountains of Chiang Rai, a one-hour flight away, I asked whether he was about do the one thing or the other: “Are you rescuing the...
Trump’s Inner Circle Keeps Violating the Stringer Bell Rule
If Donald Trump’s advisers had only watched The Wire, many of the president’s aides and associates might have saved themselves a great deal of legal trouble.There’s a scene from the HBO crime drama that shows a character named Stringer Bell trying to broker a peace between rival drug dealers, and to get them to abide by...
It Was All in Plain Sight
Make no mistake: Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment of Roger Stone, released early Friday morning, is a big deal. It’s just that it would be a bigger deal if the Trump campaign hadn’t so brazenly conducted its dubious dealings for all the public to see in real time.The indictment, coinciding with Stone’s...
Judge: ‘I Have Questions’ About Mueller Claims Manafort Lied
The judge presiding over special counsel Robert Mueller’s case against Paul Manafort in D.C. said on Friday that she had “questions” about Mueller’s claims that the former Trump campaign chairman violated his plea agreement by misleading investigators. “I have not made any decisions yet,” U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said,...
Activist Group Publishes ‘Hacked E-Mails’ From Russia
A self-described “transparency collective” has released a massive trove of hacked e-mails and leaked documents from what it describes as “Russian politicians, journalists, oligarchs, [and] religious, and social figures.” …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Desperately Seeking A Postwar President In Ukraine
For Ukrainian voters, ending the war is “the biggest problem.” But their presidential hopefuls are so far short on solutions. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych found guilty of treason by a Kiev court
Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has been sentenced in absentia to 13 years in prison for treason. …read more Source: United Press...
